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Feb 7, 2012 - 15:34

McCloud describes a lot of the building here as a "pile of crap"

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McCloud describes a lot of the building here as a "pile of crap"

The presenter of Channel 4 programme Grand Designs has described much of the housing that has been built here in the last decade as “extremely poor”.

Conservationist Kevin McCloud was speaking on a trip here yesterday as a guest of Coillte, during which he described the downturn in the construction industry in Ireland as a “huge crushing defeat.”

He said it had taken the recession to show that too many developers were building a “pile of crap” and that treating such houses as a “piece of stock demeans what a home is.”

Read the full article in today’s Irish Times here.

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